Investments in Forest Industry Transformation Program

The Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) program at Natural Resources requires services that will provide program funded companies with access to new open innovation techniques and platforms, such as Open Innovation Galleries.

Nine Sigma will provide Natural Resources Canada (NRcan) with an annual subscription which will create an (IFIT) branded Open Innovation Gallery webpage for NRCan.  The Gallery will identify key (IFIT) company technical needs and product offers, showcase IFIT Proponents’ product capabilities and technical needs, then address any additional areas of interest identified by IFIT to promote and support IFIT Proponents.  The drafted company capability Offers and technical needs will then be posted to the Open Innovation Gallery page and distributed across the Contractor’s community of innovation experts and companies.  The Contractor will collect all responses to the postings, track the interest and activity, and then present the results to IFIT on a quarterly basis.  This information will help NRCan to promote and brand IFIT and provide guidance on decisions for internal policy and programs.